184: Church-Going Grandma Ends Up On Death Row For Her Evil Crimes... The Shocking Velma Barfield Case
Lights Out
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out. Today we've got a |
| 0:07.2 | serial killing granny for you, a woman by the name of Velma Barfield. |
| 0:14.3 | Thelma decided to buy a bottle of arsenic-based rat poison. |
| 0:18.1 | It's been called the King of Poisons. This made her the first woman executed in the United States after it was reinstated after a four-year suspension. |
| 0:28.0 | She had attended every one of her victim's funerals. |
| 0:31.0 | Thelma later admitted that when she watched her victims die, victims' |
| 0:35.0 | if she watched her victims die, she felt nothing. |
| 0:37.0 | If there's ever been a case deserving imposition of the ultimate penalty, |
| 0:42.0 | this is it. |
| 0:44.0 | Today, if it were possible, I wish that I could take every bit of hurt on myself. What's up everybody? |
| 1:03.0 | What's up? |
| 1:05.0 | Life out. |
| 1:08.0 | Life out. |
| 1:11.0 | Everybody. |
| 1:12.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome back. Everybody. |
| 1:14.0 | What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm your host Josh. |
| 1:19.0 | Joining the studio by my co-host. |
| 1:21.0 | Hey man, what's up? |
| 1:22.0 | What's up, man? And our producer Daniel? How's it going everybody? |
| 1:26.3 | Today we've got a serial killing granny for you. A woman by the name of Vellma Barfield. Now Vellma |
| 1:37.2 | draws a lot of similarities to some other evil women we've covered on the |
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